Sandalwood (Santalum album linn)

sandalwood

       Sandalwood or sandalwood fragrance, a tree producing sandalwood and sandalwood oil. The wood is used as a spice, incense ingredients, aromatherapy, fragrance mix, and bayonet dagger (sheath). Good Wood can keep aroma for centuries. It is said that Sri Lanka is the wood used for the body membalsam princes since the 9th century. In Indonesia, this wood is found in East Nusa Tenggara, especially on the island of Timor, although now found also in Java and Nusa Tenggara islands other.

       Sandalwood is a parasitic plant early in life. Sprouts require its host tree to support its growth, because roots themselves are not capable of supporting life. Because this is a prerequisite sandalwood difficult bred or cultivated. Fragrant sandalwood (Santalum album linn) is now very rare and very expensive. Wood from the area in southern India Mysoram usually considered the best quality. In Indonesia, sandalwood of Timor is also greatly appreciated. Instead, aromatherapy and perfume experts using jenggi sandalwood (Santalum spicatum). Both types of wood are different concentrations of the chemicals they contain, and therefore the level of fragrance is different.

       Sandalwood is considered as an alternative medicine to bring one closer to God. Sandalwood base oil, which is very expensive in its pure form, is used primarily for Ayurvedic healing ways, and to relieve anxiety.

      In Indonesia, the word "Sandalwood" is often used by the press to describe anything related to Suharto, President of Indonesia The second, and people nearby. The reason is because the private home Soeharto and several children located on Jalan Cendana, Central Jakarta.
Judging from the Dutch (sandelhout) and English (sandalwood), sandalwood is believed to originate from NTT especially Sumba Island. It can be seen from the nickname of the island of Sumba, Sandalwood Island. The nickname was taken down generations of Japanese and Dutch colonial era to the present.
Pain can be treated with sandalwood:

gonorrhea Virulenta
Take sandalwood then milled, add water or rubbing sandalwood oil and stick it to the place of the sick.

Emenagogum (cleaners menstruation)
Take sandalwood bark then add water, then filtered and then milled drinking water.